Thanks fo your reply. My understanding (as far as that goes) has always been that amanda can only do full and incremental backups? I've been doing full backups because until now we've had the capacity to do that. If I switch to the way amanda should really work, then does that not mean that I'll get full and incremental backups, which will make the restore process more cumbersome in terms of the number of tapes needed for a restore? I'm still using amanda 2.4.4. Will appreciate your advice on this.
________________________________ From: Cyrille Bollu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2007 16:57 To: Johan Booysen Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE exclusions At first sight it looks very easy: You are currently only doing full-daily backups. So, switch to regular incremental/differential backups and you'll be fine (No need to ask people doing tar files...) Also, Amanda has all the features you need to keep track of where your files have been backuped. (eg: "index yes" in amanda.conf, amrecover, amtoc,...) > > What I want to do now is continue doing full backups every night, but > exclude any data that will have been backed up to the monthly archive > tape. IMHO, you are describing a differential backup scheme here. Cyrille
